"The most success anyone has had, through numerous angles
and schemes, has been to stop it momentarily, or to slow things
down," said one former aide said of Trump’s tweets. "But it’s
just not possible to control it."

Aides told Politico that one solution was to "bury" the US
president's fiery tweets with a flood of mundane postings.

John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has
previously sought to screen news content before it reaches
Trump's desk, but Trump has not been shy about drawing attention
to his penchant for questionable, and sometimes offensive,
material. Trump will often retweet or comment on Twitter content
he finds flattering to himself or critical of anyone who opposes
him.

Trump scans his Twitter mentions for news, according to two
former aides who have observed how he uses the site, Politico
reported. He often sees tweets that mention his Twitter handle,
and picks up links and videos there, they said.

Trump will reportedly tell his aides that "everybody’s
talking about this,” referring to clips or articles he sees
circulating among the small, mostly conservative, group of
Twitter users he follows.

On Wednesday, Trump referenced one conspiracy theory known as
"The
Deep State," which is frequently touted on dubious
websites.

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Paul Joseph Watson, a top editor at InfoWars, the site led
by arguably the US's leading conspiracy theorist Alex
Jones, tweeted Wednesday, "Yeah,
someone might want to tell whoever is running Trump's Twitter
account this morning that retweeting Britain First is not great
optics."

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
was quick to defend the president after his barrage of Tweets,
saying it didn't matter whether the anti-Muslim videos President
Donald Trump retweeted on Wednesday morning were
real. "Whether it's a real video, the threat is real,"
Sanders told reporters Wednesday.